how to point to different .ost file?

[Mike Williams]

With Outlook 2003, SP-1

I want to change the .ost file that my profile/account points to
(different from change the path). Here's why.

To begin with, I have 2 different profiles:
1. [POP] with a pop3 account and
2. [MSE] with an MS Exchange account [mse_acct].
[MSE] is associated with outlook.ost.
All was well, but cumbersome, switching back and forth and all.

I've created a new profile, beginning with a copy of [POP] and added the
MS Exchange account [mse_acct]. I managed to get the account resolved,
and I now want the profile to operate entirely in offline mode, with only
occasional manual synching of the MSE account folders Calendar, Contact,
Notes, and Tasks,

PROBLEM: OL creates a new .ost file, outlook1.ost, and I can't get it to
point back to outlook.ost.

Is there some barrier to pointing two different profiles to the same
account and to the same OST file?

THANKS

 

[Guest]

Hi Mike,

I'm not sure if the following post is what you are after but thought I would
mention it in case it is...

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...8a7fdc-0a12-40ca-930f-5fe89b1765be&sloc=en-us

cheers,
Daniel

 

[Mike Williams]

Interesting thread. Like others, it helps for relocating an OST file. The
internally referenced MSKB article is also helpful, for transferring an OST
to a new machine. But I'm trying to point two different profiles to the
same OST, though -- something which my research suggests may in fact be
impossible. Hmmmmmm.